KARACHI: The Executive Committee of the APNS will meet on March 15, 2004, at Islamabad to discuss the present state of government-press relations along with other organizational issues, stated a spokesman of the APNS. Muhammad Aslam Kazi, Secretary-General of the All Pakistan Newspapers Society, in a statement has announced that the Executive Committee members from […]
PESHAWAR: Speakers at a workshop stressed on the need of engaging womenfolk in the electoral process and urged the government to take action against those political parties who stopped women from contesting election and casting votes. The one-day workshop entitled “Media portrayal of women participation in the political process” was organized here on March 13, […]
KARACHI: The Sindh High Court restrained the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority on March 12, 2004, from finalizing the process of granting licenses for satellite TV broadcast stations on an application moved by the Pakistan Herald Publications Limited. Submitted in a writ petition filed by the PHPL, the application said Rule 17 (V) of the […]
Editorial… Federal Information Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmad has said that the issue of government advertisements to the Nawa-i-Waqt group of newspapers will soon be resolved. He made the statement in National Assembly on March 11. He had promised something similar a few days ago, but the deadlock remains. No one from government side has clearly […]
KARACHI: The London-based chief of Muttahida Qaumi Movement on March 11, 2004, threatened the country’s television channels with a boycott for failing, in his opinion, to project the poor people’s cause. Altaf Hussain was obviously not too happy over the treatment meted out to his party by the electronic media. He served a word of […]
SUKKUR: Hundreds of activists of different political parties and journalists of Sukkur on Wednesday took out a protest rally against the police, who have failed to recover journalist Shahbaz Khan Pathan and his friend Naveed Mangi, kidnapped on March 11, 2004, from in front of their houses in Old Sukkur. Activists of PPP, Jeay Sindh, […]
KARACHI – The Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFLU) has declared the government’s ban on advertisements to daily Nawa-i-Waqt as ‘contradictory to the spirit of freedom of press’ and demanded that this step should be revoked immediately so as to develop culture of freedom of expression in the country. In a Press statement the PFUJ […]
KARACHI: Declaring the government ban on advertisements to The Nation and Nawa-i-Waqt newspapers as contradictory to the spirit of freedom of the press, the Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists has demanded that this step should be immediately revoked so that a culture of freedom of expression can be developed in the country. In a statement […]
Shahbaz Pathan, a correspondent for the Sindhi daily “Halchal”, was playing badminton with five friends when several armed men tried to kidnap them. Local residents chased the kidnappers, forcing them to free four of the boys after an exchange of gunfire. The bandits, however, abducted Pathan and a 16-year-old boy and took them to the […]
The local police in Karachi assaulted a local journalist on March 10, 2004. Journalist Zulfiqar Ali, of South Asian News Agency (SANA) was attacked by station house officer (SHO) Khalid around 12:30 pm near Sindh Assembly where protest arranged by People’s Party condemning the killing of MPA Abdullah Murad was being held. When the SHO […]
KARACHI: PPPP women and Provincial women MPAs protested in front of Private TV on Tuesday. They protested against a programme, which was telecast by private channel to defame the personality of Benazir Bhutto according to PPPP women and activists. Source: The Nation Date:3/10/2004
KARACHI— The emergent meeting of the Council of Pakistan Newspaper Editors on March 8, 2004 strongly deplored the Government action of stoppage of advertising to the Nawa-i-Waqt and The Nation group of newspapers and called upon the Government to immediately withdraw this extremely detrimental action, which violates guarantees on Press freedom enshrined in Article 19 […]
KARACHI: An emergency meeting of the Council of Pakistan Newspaper Editors (CPNE), held on Monday strongly deplored the government action of stoppage of advertising to the Nawa-i-Waqt and Nation group of newspapers and called upon the government to immediately withdraw this extremely detrimental action which violates guarantee on press freedom enshrined in Article 19 of […]
An emergency meeting of the Standing Committee of Council of Pakistan Newspaper Editors (CPNE), on March 8, strongly deplored the stopping of government advertising to the daily Nawa-i-Waqt and The Nation group of newspapers. The CPNE called for the immediate withdraw of “this extremely detrimental action, which violates guarantees on Press freedom enshrined in Article […]
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